Travelling in The U.K & The USA

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Tourism is a major industry in Great Britain. It is one of the main sources of national wealth. The British take a pride in the varied landscape. There are many places in the country which once visited will always be remembered. The travellers can admire numerous plac¬es of interest in British capital, London. It's impossible to see all the sights in one day, it takes more time to see all the capital's attractions. If tourists want to admire the British landscape they are welcomed to Wales — to a beautiful land, magical castles alive with history and glory, and lots of traditional cooking and hospitality One of the best ways of enjoying Welsh scenery is to take a trip on one of the nostalgic steam railways which criss-cross gently through the countryside. If tourists hunt for real Scotland, they are sure to find it in the Highlands. The real Scotland is not found in a single moment. Scenery, history, hospitality, humour, climate, pageantry and tradition are on offer throughout a year. There has been a considerable increase in passenger travel in recent years — 29 per cent between 1984 and 1994. Travel by car and van rose by 3 8 per cent, and air travel was up by about two-thirds. In all, car and van travel accounts for 87 per cent of passenger mileage within Great Britain. In 1994 there were 37 million international passenger trips by sea between Britain and the rest of the world. Almost all the passengers who arrived at or departed from British ports travelled to or from the continent of Europe or the Irish Republic. In the same year about 236,000 people embarked on pleasure cruises from British ports. Air travel has risen substantially in recent years. In 1994 some 94 million passengers travelled by air (international terminal passengers) to or from Britain, a 10 per cent in¬crease on 1993. British airlines carried 43.9 million passengers on scheduled services and 27.1 million on charter flights. Gatwick Airport, south of London, is one of the busiest international airports in the world. In 1994 it handled more than 21 million passeneers. British people have a four or five weeks paid holiday a year. Most people like to go to the sea¬side for holidays. Many people take package holidays abroad. The popular image of a pack¬age tour is of a cheap holiday to a place by the sea in southern Europe, especially Spain (Benidorm, the Costa del Sol, Ibiza (a Spanish island). Working-class people often go to Blackpool. It is a town on the north-west coast of England. Some people take holidays in a caravan. They live on a cara¬van site in caravans, vehicles which can be pulled by cars, and which contain cooking and sleeping equipment. There are also holiday camps, often by the sea, where people can go for their holidays. They have buildings where people sleep, restaurants and bars. Middle-class people prefer walking holidays. They also like to go to the Lake District (an area in England where there are a number of lakes in beautiful mountain scenery), Devon (an English county noted for its natural beauty), Cornwall (an English county which is a popular tourist area), Tuscany (France). Camping, villas, gites (furnished houses in a country area of France that people can book for a holiday; they are cheaper than hotels and more comfortable than camping) and holi¬day cottages are also popular with them.